Only 22% of 10,305 open jobs are really remote

ApplyFalcon reads the careers pages of 57 companies every six hours, which means that at any moment we are holding a complete picture of what those companies are actually hiring for. On the day we wrote this, that was 10,305 open roles. So we counted how many of them are remote, because the number people assume and the number on the page are not the same.

The split

• Onsite: 6,180 roles — 60%
• Remote: 2,265 roles — 22%
• Hybrid: 1,860 roles — 18%

Three in five jobs at these companies require you in an office. Fewer than one in four is remote. If your search is filtered to remote-only, you are looking at roughly a fifth of what exists — which is a legitimate choice, but worth making deliberately rather than discovering after six weeks of silence.

It barely moves by role

We expected engineering to be far more remote than everything else. It is more remote, but not by much.

• Engineering and development — 3,950 roles, 26% remote
• Data, analytics and science — 701 roles, 25% remote
• Management — 2,416 roles, 22% remote
• Sales — 1,510 roles, 20% remote
• Design — 152 roles, 19% remote

A seven-point spread between the most and least remote function is smaller than the folklore suggests. Being an engineer does not buy you meaningfully more remote options than being in sales does.

It moves enormously by company

This is the finding that actually changes how you should search. Remote is not distributed evenly and then thinned out. It is close to all-or-nothing, decided per company.

• Grafana Labs — 148 open roles, 100% remote
• Twilio — 138 open roles, 100% remote
• Affirm — 180 open roles, 99% remote
• Instacart — 116 open roles, 97% remote

And at the other end, among companies with more than 60 openings:

• Palantir — 321 open roles, 0% remote
• Scale AI — 203 open roles, 0% remote
• Notion — 128 open roles, 0% remote

Not a handful of remote roles among many. Zero, across hundreds of openings. A company is either remote-first or it is not, and no amount of being the right candidate changes that policy for you.

What to do with this

Stop filtering job boards for remote and start filtering companies. Twenty minutes spent identifying which employers in your field are remote-first is worth more than months of ticking a box on an aggregator, because you are then applying into a pool where every role qualifies instead of hunting for the 22% that do.

It also explains a frustration people report often: applying to fifty remote-tagged jobs and hearing nothing. Aggregator tags are frequently wrong or stale. The company's own careers page is the source of truth, which is why we read those rather than the aggregators.

How we counted

Every active listing on 57 company career boards on 27 September 2026, taken from each company's own page rather than an aggregator. Remote status comes from what the employer states on the listing. Where a company writes nothing, we infer from the location field, so a role marked onsite with no statement either way is a role the employer did not describe as remote. Role categories come from matching the job title, so a listing can fall into more than one.

We publish this because it is what we see. The number is unflattering to an industry that talks about remote work constantly, ours included.